Poke Alex in the Eye: The Game

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Frequently Asked Questions

From time to time, we get questions from our enthusiastic poke participants. More often than not, they've already been asked at least three thousand times over. So in the interest of keeping our disk quota on our e-mail servers low, we present the following FAQ:

1. Who are these Alex and Mike guys anyway?
2. Is this poor guy I'm poking really named Alex?
3. What is wrong with you people?
4. Is Alex wearing fingernail polish?
5. What does it say on Alex's t-shirt?
6. When will you be making a Poke/Kick/Stab Alex in the Face/Groin/Butt game?
7. Whatever happened to that other game, Heads Will Roll?
8. Why don't you guys hurry the heck up and finish the Poke Plus game already? We've been waiting forever!
9. I sent you guys an email and you haven't replied. Don't you like me?
10. Is Alex, like, available?
11. I absolutely, positively have to get in touch with Alex right this very second. It's a total matter of life or death. We're talking mondo importante here. What's the best way to reach him?

Answers

1. Who are these Alex and Mike guys anyway?

   We give a great description of who we are, in disjointed interview form, on our "About" page. [top]

2. Is this poor guy I'm poking really named Alex?

   Yes. Really. [top]

3. What is wrong with you people?

   Nothing! *twitch* [top]

4. Is Alex wearing fingernail polish?

   Sigh. Yes he is. It was college. [top]

5. What does it say on Alex's t-shirt?

   Alex is wearing a homemade t-shirt with the logo of the band Flipper. They are terrible. [top]

6. When will you be making a Poke/Kick/Stab Alex in the Face/Groin/Butt game?

   We won't be. Nor will we be incorporating any sort of silly "Pick Alex's Nose" theme, so stop asking. [top]

7. Whatever happened to that other game, Heads Will Roll?

   For those that don't know, Heads Will Roll was the first in a series of games planned for Poke Alex's sister website, The Virtual Toybox. Unfortunately the Virtual Toybox concept never really materialized and we had to abandon it. Heads Will Roll has therefore been removed indefinitely. [top]

8. Why don't you guys hurry the heck up and finish the Poke Plus game already? We've been waiting forever!

   We apologize for it taking so long, but you can relax! Alex's Poke Plus is now ready and rarin' to go! We've included all kinds of new tricks and surprises, along with the quality finger-thrusting, eye-poking hijinks you've come to expect from Poke Alex In The Eye: The Game! [top]

9. I sent you guys an email and you haven't replied. Don't you like me?

   Awww, don't be that way. We're sure that each and every person that sends us a comment is a lovely, intelligent, kind person with a heart of gold and more friends than they can count (even the ones who tell us that we're retarded). We just get much more email than we can handle, which is far better than we ever expected. [top]

10. Is Alex, like, available?

    This has to be the single most frequently asked question sent to the developers of Poke Alex In The Eye: The Game.

11. I absolutely, positively have to get in touch with Alex right this very second. It's a total matter of life or death. We're talking mondo importante here. What's the best way to reach him?

    Listen, Gwyneth, we've told you to stop calling.

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So he got taken off to jail or something and they tore down the alligator repair shop, which kind of irks me because my alligator was still in there. It was giving me problems, so I gave it to Mr. Phlegm, and he told me it was nothing serious, like a couple of loose belts and maybe a rusted sparkplug or two. Well, he had to order the parts and stuff so he told me it wouldn't be ready until Tuesday, and then all of a sudden guys from the CIA are asking him to go with them to Washington. At least, I think they were with the CIA. My friends tell me that everybody in the CIA wears a black ski mask. One of the guys had pantyhose on his head, so I guess he was probably with the FBI. I'm pretty sure everybody in the FBI carries a flamethrower, and I know for a fact that they always set fire to people when they arrest them. I guess it was pretty important that they knew who I was, because they asked for my wallet to make sure I had proper identification. 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Now I can finally get all my favorite Afghanistanian soap operas, like "Akhmed Miller's Wacky Camel-Painting and Soup-Pinching Hour." I've got almost every episode on tape but I'm really excited about the DVD collection that's coming out. They tell me there's extra footage from the episode where Mrs. Hershberger eats thirty-eight airplane tires and a whole Big Mac. Boy, I'd sure hate to be the plumber at that house! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Gee, I've really sidetracked. What was I talking about? Oh right, English monarchs. Did you know Henry V died of dysentery? He was in power from 1413 to 1422, and was going to be heir to the French throne. He also had a very silly haircut and a particularly bad driver's license photo. Yep. So.... what's going on? I've been going on and on about nothing in particular and you haven't said a word. By the way, I must commend you for your dedication if you've read this far. Oh! We must warn you... the creators of Poke Alex in the Eye: The Game in no way condone or promote actually poking people in the eye. What you do in free time behind closed doors is your business, but we can't have people going around stabbing each other's eyeballs out and them blaming it on us. How bad would we look if there was a sudden epidemic of head lice and everybody claimed to have caught it from our website? Actually, that's not really relevant. Why do you keep changing the subject? I hate when people can't stay on one topic for more than five seconds. Like this one guy I know. His name is Jennifer and he has the biggest set of outboard motor cords I've ever seen. "Old Jennifer Outboard Motor Cord," we used to call him. Of course, that was back in the day when a bottle of orange juice only cost three cents. They couldn't get rid of oranges fast enough that year, what with the war on. Down with General Zanzibar and his army of Undead Mutant Swordfish! So you see what I'm trying to say here. This website is a lot of fun if you know how to treat it right. All characters in Poke Alex in the Eye: The Game are entirely fictional, and any similarity to actual persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. Except for Alex.